During one of my chess phases I bought the above book off ebay. It cost me a small fortune since it was a first printing. I have collected other written material about Fischer including the original Life magazine about his…
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Bobby Fischer – My 60 Memorable Games (First Printing 1969)
Tagged with: Bobby Fischer, My 60 Most Memorable Games, The World Against Bobby Fischer
Posted in Reading, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Reading, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer)
Today we take a walk off the beaten track in Wednesday’s book quotes to look at an authorised biography of the pioneer Australian adventurer Alby Mangels. The author Lynn Santer who I was in contact with in the early 2000s…
Richmond Tigers win the AFL Premiership 2019 (Special Edition)
This post is to celebrate this weekend’s win of my beloved Richmond Tigers in the AFL premiership final. Australian Rules or Australian Football League (AFL) to be exact has a religious-like following in Melbourne. If I had a dollar for…
Tagged with: 2019 AFL grand final, melbourne, Richmond tigers
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)
Once is an Irish romantic drama that had a very modest budget (and ‘approach’ if I might add) and found Oscars success at the 2008 awards season. I have great affection for this movie not only because I had just…
‘If In Doubt, Cut it Out’ – Reflections on Ernest Hemingway’s Writing
‘If in Doubt Cut it Out‘ is an old writer’s slogan used to remind budding writers to get rid of unnecessary noise and clutter. Cutting words remains one of the hardest, yet necessary parts of writing. Even after all these…
Afterglow (2006) – INXS
INXS were an Australian rock band fronted by the dynamic lead singer and main lyricist Mitchael Hutchence. They achieved international success from the mid to late 80s and early 90s with records like Listen Like Thieves, Kick and X selling…
Near Death and Contemplation of God from Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
As you may have gleaned from my recent book quotations I have been working my way through the literary classics with great gusto. I aim to present a weekly book quote on this blog every Wednesday. I’m currently reading Robinson…
The Sunshine Song – Kundalini Yoga
The Sunshine song is a projected healing meditation. What I want you to do is to mentally pick out a person that you would like to help or heal.
‘Youth is the One Thing Worth Having’ – The Picture of Dorian Gray
When the decadent Lord Henry Wotton warns the irresistible young Dorian Gray that he really should not get sunburnt, his forthcoming remarks regarding youth and beauty are unashamedly brash but correct none the less. In the opinion of this poster…
Tagged with: Beauty, oscar wilde, the happy prince, the picture of Dorian Gray, Youth
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Glad Wrap and other ‘Broken Shoelace’ Events
So here I am unwrapping the dreaded ‘glad-wrap’ plastic to seal over a plate of food that I will perhaps reheat the next day….and I’m in kind of a hurry. When you are cooking for just one, you’re always in…
Tagged with: Charles Bukowski, cooking, glad wrap, humour, poem, The Shoelace
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
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